The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-15
A NEWSPAPER SCARE.

The London ''T.mes" and Its Latest Sensa-
tion-Interview with Mr.. Davitt
4 1soNDoN, Dec 14-The Times's story about
DR.. Hamilton Williams and his dynamite cam
paign is generally regarded as the silliest and ct
the time most vicious thrust OF that pa
per's attacks upon the party. Even the most
bitter Tories refuse to believe it, and the i'm
preston it has made upon the Nationalist is
simply that OF disgust. Mr. Davitt, who is in
London, denounces the article unworthy even
Of the Police News, which he characterizes as
the vilest sheet ever published. He heartily
rdcules the idea that Rossa's successor COM
mands the almost fabulous sum mentioned for
the furtherance OF his murderous intentions
and declares that there was not single allega-
tion in the story that the circumstances and
condition of the accused dynamite king render
at all possible. The most charitable of London
ers now believe that either the Times has been
wofully misled or is willfully subserviens to the
ultra-Tory policy.
In an interview this evening concerning the
Timess alleged dynamite revelations. Mr..
Michael Davitt said:
s'The Times's so-called disclosures were made
either by its ant-Irisn department.
somebody in New York ambitious to obtain a
sensational advertisement In either case such
o scare at the present time, when two men, no
matter whether they be innocont guilty.
awaiting trial in London for alleged connection
with dynamite conspiracy. was most cowardly.
1 predict that when the New York interviewers
visit the rooms in Cham bers street and give
their impressions in tomorrow mornings pa
pers about the place. its staff of clerks, ETC., the
fund of f200, 900 will shrink infinitely nearer to
nothing than did Falstaffs men in buckram.
There is not journalist, detective, govern
ment official or public man in New
York or any other American city
who does not know that Rossas whole
party cannot command many farthings the
Times endows them with pounds, and anyone
who has read the United Irshman within the
last six months knows that Rossa Is engaged in
made by former friends, who have averred that
he had betrayed men who are now serving terms
of imprisonment in England for alleged COM
plicty in dynamite operations. Mad As Rosa
is. he is utterly incapable, in my opinion, of be-
trayng anyone to the English. But that he
toned by the Times is probable that the
unemployed workingmen of London have large
bank accounts, and the plot is about vision
ary as the fabulous fund with which it is to be
effected. The Times never admits that
the dynamiters repudiats Mr.. Par
and elegant as that of the Times
itself. The Times's daily denunciation of Mr..
Gladstono's policy might be inspired by one Of
Rossas writings, only the London edition of
the New York an.i-Parnellite organ has, as yet.
not limited of my assassination, as Rossas paper
policy of violence and physical force in Chicago
Out of each thousand of Irishmen in America,
999 support Mr.. Parnell and oppose criminal
violence, and nothing is or can be more calcu-
lated to recruit the lessening ranks of the dyna-
miters than the writings OF papers like the
Times and the unconstitutional acts Of the gov
ernment If the plot really existed, 1t would be
the natural outcome of these actions"